The Man in the Queue [Audiobook]

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Winner of the Dutton Mystery Prize

London is abuzz as the beautiful Ray Marcable's final shows at the West End approach. Before she jets off to perform in America everyone in the city is clamoring to see her once more. The lines wrap around the street and crowds are tightly knit together. One fateful night, just as he is nearing the box office, a man drops to the ground--dead. Although a knife protrudes from his back and there were countless potential witnesses, no one knows the poor man and no one saw who did the deadly deed.

It is up to Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard to solve this case. Riddled with false leads, and misleading clues, this mystery from Josephine Tey, one of the best-selling authors from the Golden Age of detective fiction, will take the witty Inspector Grant on a wild journey worthy of his first appearance in literature.

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"Inspector Alan Grant painstakingly, fascinatingly identifies the body, then chases suspects up to the Highlands of Scotland and all around the town."

Author Bio

Josephine Tey (1896-1952) ne Elizabeth MacKintosh was a Scottish author best known for her detective fiction, particularly The Daughter of Time (1951) which was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. She wrote six novels featuring her beloved crime solver Inspector Alan Grant, the first of which was published under yet another pseudonym Gordon Daviot. Three of her novels have been turned into films, including A Shilling for Candles (1936) which Alfred Hitchcock adapted as Young and Innocent in 1937.